Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: WCI Edition
New Mexico’s approach to implementing greenhouse gas legislation.
Archive of posts filed under the climate variability category.
It’s the Food
Stehfest et al. in Climatic Change: A global transition to a low meat-diet as recommended for health reasons would reduce the mitigation costs to achieve a 450 ppm CO2-eq. stabilisation target by about 50% in 2050 compared to the reference case. Dietary changes could therefore not only create substantial benefits for human health and global land …
Annan On the Pielke-Hansen Kerfuffle
James Annan argues that Roger and I are both wrong in our discussion of how to properly think about James Hansens 2006 draft paper discussing the possibility of “super El Nino”: It’s OK to hold Hansen to his 2006 El Nino forecast. (Fleck wrong.) A careful reading of that forecast suggests Hansen got it right. …
What Did Hansen Predict, and When Did He Predict It?
Roger Pielke Jr. has a bit of an odd post up today taking James Hansen to task for predicting a “super El Niño” in 2006, which did not come to pass. Here’s Roger: I’ve always thought that predictions made should not be forgotten, but evaluated and learned from. The “prediction” in question, which I wrote …
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Rainfall and Zimbabwe’s Economy
Via Michael Campana, a remarkable graph:
Is the Push for Regional Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Breaking Down?
Shaun McKinnon had an item today on the push in the Arizona legislature to back away from the Western Climate Initiative: A group of state legislators has started the process of undoing former Gov. Janet Napolitano’s climate change initiatives and their chances of success are probably good. A bill has been introduced in the Senate …
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Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Black Swans in the Arctic
The black swans of climate change, national security, the arctic. (ad gated)
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Public Climate Attitudes
Some musings on the new Pew poll numbers about public attitudes toward environmental issues etc. (Comments closed here. Comment over there.)
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Dead Tree Edition
Western warming killing trees.
On the Possibility of Climate Change Action
Ryan Avent: I have become increasingly pessimistic about our ability to address the climate change crisis. The dynamics are simply deadly — the most dangerous effects begin arriving after it’s too late to do anything about them — which leaves as our great hope the chance that a strong enough intellectual argument can be made …
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